You
might want a look at the template toolkit. This kind of problem is the
reason it was invented.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Lloyd Sartor
Sent: 01 April 2005 16:39
To: Daniel Wilson
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Subject: Re: A better way? templates maybe?
I would look at formats - see the ActiveState perlform doc page or "Formats" section in Ch.2 (Gory Details) of Programming Perl (O'Reilly). I have not used this feature, but report formatting is allegedly one of the primary initial functions of PERL (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/01/2005 09:06:01 AM:
> Hello
>
> I have a weird situation, it reminds me (many many years ago) of using COBOL
> and pic statements to align data.
>
> I have to build a file containing the followingdata , to pass to GAMS
> (Mathematical Modeling Engine)
>
> JPYUSD EURUSD GBPUSD
> JPYUSD 1.000000000 0.02016 0.113887000
> EURUSD 0.020160000 1.000000000 -0.039177000
> GBPUSD 0.11388700 -0.0391770 1.000000000
>
> The GAMS barfed, because the Column header are not aligned with the data under
> it (Exactly aligned, even the "-" has to be aligned) . I could spend allot
> of time messing with the alignment, using padding and sprintf statements.
>
> However, I just wanted to check to see if anyone knows a better way of
> handling this, maybe templates?
>
> Your Thoughts?
>
> Dan
> Daniel Wilson
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